18 May 27 May

2025 Ireland Writing Retreat

May 18-27, 2025 join a small group (12 maximum) of writers focused on making More info Read more

18 May

UNMET Book Launch Halifax

The book launch for the poetry collection UNMET (Biblioasis) by stephanie roberts at the More info Read more

18 May

Poetry Launch with Terese Mason Pierre

Join us on May 8th at 7pm in launching Terese Mason Pierre’s poetry collection, More info Read more

18 May

World Premiere of Michaela Di Cesare’s play Mickey & Joe (Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty)

150 years (give or take) after the “unification” of Italy, a forgotten player finds More info Read more

19 May

Novel Essentials: The Art & Craft of Long-Form Fiction

Have you had an itch to write a novel, but haven’t known how to More info Read more

20 May

World Premiere of Michaela Di Cesare’s play Mickey & Joe (Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty)

150 years (give or take) after the “unification” of Italy, a forgotten player finds More info Read more

21 May

Craft Meets Magic: The Alchemy of Short Fiction

Is there an art form more maddening than the short story? Demanding the complexity More info Read more

21 May

World Premiere of Michaela Di Cesare’s play Mickey & Joe (Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty)

150 years (give or take) after the “unification” of Italy, a forgotten player finds More info Read more

22 May

“The Sustainability Class” – book launch / lancement du livre

Join us in welcoming Vijay Kolinjivadi & Aaron Vansintjan to Pulp Books on May More info Read more

22 May

Soliloquies Launch, 29.2

Soliloquies Anthology is launching their 29.2 issue! Hear readings by contributors, as well as More info Read more

22 May

Poetry Launch: Christine Wu and Jessica Bebenek

Join Christine Wu and Jessica Bebenek for the Montreal launch of their poetry collections: Wu’s Familial Hungers (Brick Books) and Bebenek’s No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press).

22 May

World Premiere of Michaela Di Cesare’s play Mickey & Joe (Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty)

150 years (give or take) after the “unification” of Italy, a forgotten player finds More info Read more

 

QWF Annual Timeline

Zines laid out on a page

January

Woman reading at a microphone in front of an intimate audience

February

March

April

  • QWF Annual General Meeting (AGM)
  • Writers in the Community Pyramid Campaign ends
Stacks of books on display

May

June

Women in a classroom

July

People wearing summer clothes in nature

August

Two women smiling at the camera

September

Group of women smiling at camera

October

November

December

The QWF Office closes for the last two weeks of December—happy holidays!  
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